Trap-holder for milk and other bottles.



APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12, 1914.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

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MOSES B. FRUMER'AND MORRIS SHERMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TRAP-HOLDER FOR MILK AND OTHER BOTTLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

Application filed January 12, 1914. Serial No. 811,535.

To all whom "it may concern Be it known that we, Mosns B. FRUMER andMourns SHERMAN, both citizens of the United States, residing at the cityof Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Trap-Holders for Milk and other Bottles, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention has relation to a trapholder for milk or other bottlesoperatively connected with a door framing, consisting of a springcontrolled hinged holder adapted to be held in an operative position bythe door when opened inward and the holder when not loaded flappingagainst the back of the door by the closing automatically or otherwiseof the door, whereby is provided a simple device to protect milk andother filled bottles placed in the holder from being abstracted.

Our invention stated in general terms, consists of a trap-holder forbottles arranged in substantially the manner hereinafter described andclaimed.

The nature and scope of our present invention will be more fullyunderstood from the following description taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which Figure 1, is aperspective view of a trapholder for supporting bottles, showing thespring controlled trap door in an open position supporting thebottle-holder in an operative position; the said View illustrat ing themain features of our invention. Fig. 2, is a front elevational view ofthe same; and Fig. 3, is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of thedevice, showing the door in a closed condition and in rear the holdersupporting a milk or other bottle.

Referring to the drawings, a, is the door framing having a springcontrolled hinge latch door a for engaging a keeper (1. of a key-lock atb, is a bottle holder hinged at 17 to the framing a, as clearlyillustrated in Figs. 1 and 3. The holder at one end is formed into areceptacle b ,'to hold the bottle. In

the forward part of the holder is provided an oblong opening I), inwhich is mounted an arched spring 0, secured at one end to the framinga, and at the opposite end under the holder 6. When the door a is in anopen position as in Fig. 1, and it is released from such position, itwill at once snap against the framing a, and become locked and theholder will follow the closing of the door and snap against the back ofthe 0 door if not loaded, while if loaded with a filled bottle, anyefiort to close the door will not disturb the position of the loadedholder, but it will be maintained in the position as clearly illustratedin Fig. 3, with the door locked to the framing a, as therein shown.

Having thus described the nature and object of our invention, what weclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 7 A holder of thecharacter described, comprising a framing, a spring actuated door hingedthereto, .a holder hinged to said framing for supporting a bottle in aver tical position and a flat spring at one end '7 connected with saidframing and at the opposite end connected with said holder and said doorin an open position arranged to maintain said holder in an operativeposition to receive the bottle,osubstantially as and for the purposedescribed.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our signatures in the presenceof the two subscribing witnesses.

MOSES 'B. FRUMER. MORRIS SHERMAN.

lVitnesses HARRY N. BRENNER, J. WALTER DOUGLASS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of ratents, Washington, D. G."

